(VANITY)Do any FReepers play Majestic, the Real Life Adventure Game?

Majestic is an episodic online entertainment experience set against the backdrop of a grand and sinister conspiracy -- an unfolding mystery adventure that uses the Internet as a canvas for its story, weaving you through both real and fictional experiences in real time. Highly personalized and naturally paced, Majestic tailors your experience specifically to you as it dynamically changes the content of Web pages, emails, faxes, voice mails and chat conversations in order to immerse each player at the very heart of a developing story. Majestic players assume the leading role in their own adventure, interacting with other characters, uncovering clues, searching for answers, collecting and using digital objects and resolving challenges to progress through the experience. Unlike other forms of entertainment, Majestic actively pursues and interacts with you based on events developing within the fiction, creating a uniquely suspenseful entertainment experience.

I played the free demo.

It's really interesting at first (I didn't have phone calls enabled, but you get random AOL IMs, e-mails, etc...really immersive) but after a while you realize it isn't that dynamic..just plods along a single path and leads you by the nose.

The content is not updated frequently enough to sustain long-term play. EA constantly receives complaints from players who finish the current set of activities in one weekend (or even one night!), then have nothing to do until fresh content comes on line the next month.

If you plan on playing for only a very limited amount of time (one or two hours a week), and are a major X-Files fan, then it may be worth trying. For the same money, though, you can get into UO or EverCrack, games which will consume as much of your time as you're willing to let them, and which will give you the opportunity to interact with other players (something Majestic really doesn't).

I've been playing it for nearly a month now. Like someone else said, it starts out fun but a) You can get through it pretty easily and quickly, leaving yourself with a long wait until the system lets you off "standby" mode and you can get moving again. b) It's not very dynamic -- you follow a linear path that's almost insulting at how easy it is. c) It's pretty predictable (i.e., one time i had the answer to a puzzle, and ended up waiting around for the puzzle to come along in the storyline, so that i could solve it - if that makes sense).

It's a so-so game. However, just this afternoon I had an interesting development. Had a "live" conversation with someone claiming to be not affiliated with the game, but who was evaluating it as a tool to disseminate information to the players. The person I spoke to mentioned that this whole game is actually based on real stuff, presented unapologetically as the truth, but then labeled fiction, so that no one will believe it. To me, it sounded like a very thoughtful ploy by EA to catch me off guard (and perhaps it happens at other times to other players), by presenting me with a live person who was saying, basically, "hey, this stuff is real!"

At the least, it offered a much more interesting diversion by having a conversation with someone who either believes this stuff, is part of the game to make me THINK he really believes it, or...dun dun dun.....it IS real! :-)

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